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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Congressman: Muslim Brotherhood advising Obama

Congressman: Muslim Brotherhood advising Obama

President made 'horrendous decisions' about Middle East revolutions

Outspoken
Republican congressman Louie Gohmert is continuing to press for
investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the federal
government, contending in an interview that a probe is necessary because
of the Obama administration’s “horrendous decisions” in backing the
so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East.
The East Texas lawmaker was one of five Republican Congress members
who stirred bipartisan controversy in June by raising concern about
Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the nation’s capital.

In an interview Tuesday on Gohmert charged that the
administration was taking advice from the Muslim Brotherhood, the
Egypt-based movement formed after the demise of the Ottoman Turkish
empire with the intent of helping establish Islamic rule worldwide.
“You look at the decisions [the Obama administration] made,
especially in the last two years, in going through the revolutions in
Northern Africa and across the Middle East and to the Far East,” said
Gohmert, “and the only way you can explain the horrendous decisions that
were so completely wrongheaded would be if the administration had a
bunch of Muslim Brotherhood members giving them advice.”
In July, Gohmert, along with Rep. Michele Bachmann, R, Minn., and
three other Republican House members, pointed to Hillary Clinton’s top
aide, Huma Abedin, as a possible Muslim Brotherhood influence on U.S.
policy. The lawmakers asked the inspector generals at the departments of
Homeland Security, Justice and State to investigate, prompting
Democrats and Republicans to rush to Abedin’s defense.
However, as WND reported,
Abedin worked for an organization founded by her family that is
effectively at the forefront of a grand Saudi plan to mobilize U.S.
Muslim minorities to transform America into a strict Wahhabi-style
Islamic state, according to an Arabic-language manifesto issued by the
Saudi monarchy. Abedin also was a member of the executive board of the Muslim Student Association,
which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group in a 1991
document introduced into evidence during the terror-financing trial of
the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation trial.The internal memo
said Muslim Brotherhood members “must understand that their work in
America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the
Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by
their hands and by the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated
and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent of most of the top Sunni
terrorist organizations in the world, including al-Qaida and Hamas.
Gohmert and other advocates for an investigation of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s influence on the U.S. government argue a simple reading of
security clearance guidelines in reference to Huma Abedin’s family
would warrant investigation.
Gaffeny’s Center for Security Policy, where he serves as president, notes that security clearance guidelines for federal employees
state a “security risk may exist when an individual’s immediate family,
including cohabitants and other persons to whom he or she may be bound
by affection, influence, or obligation are not citizens of the United
States or may be subject to duress.”
The guidelines express concern for any “association or sympathy with
persons or organizations that advocate the overthrow of the United
States Government, or any state or subdivision, by force or violence or
by other unconstitutional means.”
Nevertheless, Washington
Post columnist Dana Milbank suggested researchers and lawmakers who
have presented evidence of the Muslim Brotherhood ties of Abedin and her
family are motivated by racism. He commented it’s “hard to escape
the suspicion” that the charges have “something to do with the way she
looks and how she worships.”
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the request for an investigation of
Abedin and her family a “sinister” and “nothing less than an
unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated
American and a loyal public servant.”
After the Gaffney interview Tuesday, Gohmert told KLTV-TV in Tyler,
Texas, that there’s “no question there’s (Muslim Brotherhood) influence,
the question is how much is there.”
Gohmert recalled his questioning of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about the issue.
“In front of our committee, I asked her how many members of her
advisory committee were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, she said she
didn’t know,” Gohmert told KLTV.
Gaffney asked Gohmert if the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration issue
should be “raised anew and much more aggressively” as Congress
investigates the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack and developments in Egypt,
where the Muslim Brotherhood president is asserting authoritarian powers
“Absolutely,” Gohmert said.”I think it almost makes a prima facie
case when you look at the decisions made by this administration over the
last couple of years, or actually all four years.”